UPDATE 3-Egyptian ex-president Mubarak on life support

CAIRO, June 19 (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak was on life support
in hospital on Wednesday, Egyptian military officials said,
denying a report that the ousted president was clinically dead.

Earlier the state news agency, amid high tension over the
election of a new president, quoted medical sources as saying
the former head of state was "clinically dead". That description
was also used to Reuters by a hospital source.

But several sources in the military and security services,
which retain control following the revolt, said Mubarak, 84, was
being kept alive and said they would not use the expression
"clinically dead" to describe his condition.

General Said Abbas, a member of the ruling military council,
told Reuters that Mubarak had suffered a stroke but added:
"Any talk of him being clinically dead is nonsense."

Another military source said: "He is completely unconscious.
He is using artificial respiration."

Another member of the military council, General Mamdouh
Shaheen, told CNN: "He is not clinically dead as reported, but
his health is deteriorating and he is in critical condition."

The confusion over the state of health of the former leader
came as his long-time opponents in the Muslim Brotherhood
claimed victory over a candidate drawn from the military elite
in a presidential election held at the weekend.

Results have not been published, and supporters of Ahmed
Shafik, Mubarak's former prime minister who was running against
the Islamist Mohamed Morsy, said it was he who had won.
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